No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.